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Genus of flowering plants in the family Burmanniaceae
Burmannia is a genus of flowering plants long thought of as related to
orchids , although more recent studies suggest closer affinities with either the
Dioscoreales or the
Melanthiales .
[3]
[4]
[5] The plants are herbs, partially
autotrophic (
photosynthetic ) but also partially
parasitic on soil
fungi .
Burmannia is native to tropical and subtropical parts of
Africa , eastern
Asia ,
Australia , and the
Western Hemisphere . Three are regarded as native to the
US :
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The name Burmannia is a
taxonomic patronym honoring the Dutch botanist
Johannes Burman (1706 - 1779).
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Systematics
Burmannia comprises the following species.
[1]
Burmannia alba - Brazil, Paraguay
Burmannia aprica - S Brazil
Burmannia australis - Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia
Burmannia bengkuluensis - Sumatra
Burmannia bicolor - Cuba, N South America
Burmannia bifaria - Java
Burmannia biflora -
Virginia to
Texas ;
Cuba
Burmannia candelabrum - India, Assam, Bangladesh
Burmannia candida - Thailand, Myanmar, Sumatra
Burmannia capitata -
North Carolina to
Texas ,
West Indies , S
Mexico , C + S America
Burmannia championii - S + E + SE Asia, New Guinea
Burmannia chinensis - E India, Indochina, China, Ryukyu Is
Burmannia cochinchinensis - Vietnam
Burmannia coelestis - S + E + SE Asia, New Guinea, N Australia, Micronesia
Burmannia compacta - S Venezuela
Burmannia connata - Sumatra
Burmannia cryptopetala - E Asia
Burmannia damazii - C + SE Brazil
Burmannia dasyantha - Colombia, Venezuela
Burmannia disticha - S + E + SE Asia, New Guinea, N Australia
Burmannia engganensis - Enggano I in W Indonesia
Burmannia filamentosa - Guangdong in China
Burmannia flava - S
Florida ,
Chiapas ,
Cuba , C + S America
Burmannia foliosa - S Venezuela
Burmannia geelvinkiana - W New Guinea
Burmannia gracilis - S Thailand, W Malaysia
Burmannia grandiflora - Colombia, C Brazil
Burmannia hexaptera - Cameroon, Gabon
Burmannia indica - S India
Burmannia itoana - China, Japan
Burmannia jonkeri - Mato Grosso, Goiás
Burmannia juncea - N Australia
Burmannia kalbreyeri - C America, NW S America
Burmannia larseniana - Thailand
Burmannia latialata - tropical Africa
Burmannia ledermannii - New Guinea, Palau
Burmannia luteoalba - Phu-quoc I. in Cambodia; Vietnam
Burmannia lutescens - Malaysia, Indonesia, Papuasia
Burmannia madagascariensis - Madagascar, Mauritius, C + S Africa
Burmannia malasica - S Thailand, SE Kalimantan
Burmannia micropetala - New Guinea
Burmannia nepalensis - Himalayas, E + SE Asia
Burmannia oblonga - Hainan, Indochina, N Sumatra
Burmannia polygaloides - S. Venezuela, NW Brazil
Burmannia pusilla - India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia
Burmannia sanariapoana - S Venezuela
Burmannia sphagnoides - W Malaysia, Sumatra, W Borneo
Burmannia steenisii - Java
Burmannia stricta - S India
Burmannia stuebelii - N Peru
Burmannia subcoelestis - Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
Burmannia tenella - N + C South America
Burmannia tenera - Goiás, São Paulo
Burmannia tisserantii - Central African Rep
Burmannia vaupesiana - Colombia
Burmannia wallichii - China, India, Indochina
Notes
References
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"World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew" . apps.kew.org . Retrieved 2017-01-14 .
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b Burkhardt, Lotte (2018-06-06). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen - Erweiterte Edition. Index of Eponymic Plant Names - Extended Edition. Index de Noms éponymiques des Plantes - Édition augmentée (in German). Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. p. B118.
doi :
10.3372/epolist2018 .
ISBN
978-3-946292-26-5 .
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^ Leake, J. R. 1994. Tansley review no. 69. The biology of myco-heterotrophic (‘saprophytic’) plants. New Phytologist 127: 171–216.
^ Wood, C. E. Jr. 1983. The genera of Burmanniaceae in the southeastern United States. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University 64: 293–307.
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"Burmannia in Flora of North America @ efloras.org" . www.efloras.org . Retrieved 2017-01-14 .
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"2013 BONAP North American Plant Atlas. TaxonMaps" . bonap.net . Retrieved 2017-01-14 .
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